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DateMon, 5 Jan 1998 12:31:46 -0500 (EST)
From"Mark H. Wood" <>
SubjectRe: PATCH for NET=n
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Philip Blundell wrote:

> In message <Pine.OSF.3.95.971223112335.15177A-200000@namu23>, "Martin.Dalecki" 
> writes:
> >1. Unix sockets are NOT only networking but a general IPC mechanism
> >instead. They don4t depend on networking code. If you are not connected to
> >the net it should remain possible to specify CONFIG_NET=n and CONFIG_UNIX.
> >There is no need for TCP/IP at  friends on an box without any kind of
> >networking connection. Nothing depends really on TCP/IP (Even X11
> >doesn4t!).
> 
> That's not correct.  CONFIG_INET controls whether to include TCP/IP support; 
> you can have Unix sockets without this.  CONFIG_NET is the next level up and 
> it's reasonable to require this for _anything_ that uses sockets.

So, what we're saying here is that CONFIG_NET maybe should have been 
called CONFIG_SOCKET instead.  Unix-domain sockets are arguably not 
networking, but networking is only a subset of the uses of the Berkeley 
socket model.  Hmmm....
 -- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Legacy system:  installed before the speaker arrived; therefore
outdated, despised, to be replaced ASAP.

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